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LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey just released the results of a survey on the state of men and women interacting in the workplace in the age of #MeToo. The results are frustrating. The data reveals that 60% of male managers say they are uncomfortable performing common workplace activities such as mentoring, working one on one, or socializing with a woman. That's a 32% increase over last year.
To add insult to insult, senior-level men who were surveyed are now far more hesitant to spend time with junior female colleagues than junior male ones, across a range of basic work activities. The men were 12 times more likely to hesitate to have one-on-one meetings, nine times more likely to hesitate to travel with a junior woman for work, and six times more likely to hesitate to have a work dinner with a junior woman.
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A 32% increase in one year is a dramatic social trend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @11:43PM (1 child)
Honestly, you need to go see a therapist. Seriously. Really. This is NOT normal. Go see a therapist.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ilsa on Wednesday May 22 2019, @03:50PM
Actually, yes. It is normal. Like it or not, human beings are animals, with instincts and urges.
We also have the mental capacity to (for the most part) evaluate and override those instincts and urges when they would not actually be beneficial to us.
That being said, I should see a therapist. So should literally everyone else on the planet because we're all f__ked up in some way and could use help getting it all sorted out.